Who remembers the potted plant craze of the 70s?

[Biophilic]

I was just reading a book and a description sent me reeling back 50 years. A time when potted and hanging plants were everywhere. I obviously found them comforting and soothing since that is the emotion the memories pulled up. What happened to that time?

[msongs]

1. they ran away with the macrame owls nt

[debm55]

3. Yes, I used to make macrame holders for my plants.

[Biophilic]

4. Oh, I forgot about those. Our apartment was a jungle of macrame hangers and plants everywhere.

I loved it. So many clever hangers. 🤣

[Demovictory9]

2. Pothos, spider plants mostly. Now much more variety

[Harker]

5. I'm surrounded by plants still. n/t

[Biophilic]

7. I'm a bit jealous. I have a couple inside but most are outside. Probably why I don't sleep as well these days.

[Harker]

13. It seems that you might enjoy a renaissance of potting. n/t

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. Same here.

I have a 24-year-old Norfolk Island Pine that's 8 feet tall, among many other plants.

[Harker]

11. Nice...

They're good friends.

[Sneederbunk]

6. Thought the craze was pot plants.

[Biophilic]

8. They were there too. Sort of tucked in between other plants.

Except for my father’s garden. He decided to plant some pot for my mom as she had a lot of pain and a cranky disposition. You have to remember he was a prestigious university professor in an upscale neighborhood. He planted them out front where there was sunshine among his tomatoes. They were very happy plants. Grew about 6 feet and flourished. Remember this was pot of the 70s but still it was pretty good. Well good enough that my shrink at the time took large bundles in payment. Oh yeah, those were some weird but good times.

[badhair77]

10. I just threw out a dead plant the other day

and realized none of my nieces and great-nieces have any potted plants in their homes. I thought maybe it was generational.

[Biophilic]

12. They just don't know the bliss of living in a jungle.

Well, it was always a well manicured jungle. Today I’d probably water liberally and hope for the best. Strangely I had much more energy 50 years ago.

[womanofthehills]

18. I'm still living in a jungle -my whole south side is all windows

For solar gain - I have four Madagascar palms that reach the ceiling plus about 10 other types of large cactus, plus 3 hibiscus in bloom and 1 bougainvillea in bloom. Some my cactus are over 30 yrs old. For food, I have 3 black cherry tomatoes and mini greens . Also, a few Indica pot plants thrown in too. I’ve always had house plants since my hippy days.

My grandmother was a huge gardener and her glassed in porch was loaded with plants (my mother never had a plant) - I think my house reminds me of her.

[electric_blue68]

19. Ooooo, bougainvillea & hibiscus! 🥰🥰

that is all. 😉

[catbyte]

14. Yeah, I bought a beautiful pony tail palm (what was I thinking?) and I came downstairs

the next morning to find it had gotten a buzz cut by my cats. They must've had a blast. The beautiful fronds, almost 2 feet long were gnawed down to nothing. I think the longest frond was about 3 inches long. It looked like it had joined the Marines.

End of real plants.

[Biophilic]

15. Oh, yeah, been there, trying to keep plants kitty safe.

We even tried at least one of those anti kitty sprays. Nope. The only thing that worked was out of easy range.

[Marthe48]

16. My Mom had houseplants my whole life

We called it her jungle. In the spring, we kids would take every pot, from small to giant, out on the front porch, after the last frost. In the fall, we'd bring them all in before the first frost. I'm serious when I say they took up half the living room. At Christmas, we had to get really creative to get them put away while the tree was up. The house was not uniformly heated and if we weren't careful about putting the plants away, they could get too cold and die. She also had a bunch of grungy cups on the window sill in the kitchen. They were full of leaves and cuttings she was trying to root, or dying plants she was trying to revive, so sometimes, it got crowded after Christmas. lol The year she lost 3 rubber trees and an avocado tree she started from a seed was tough.
I still have plants she grew in that era. I had a split leaf philodendren Mom had in the 1960s. I divided it 3 times and transplanted it to bigger pots 2 or 3 times. It was as tall as I am, and over 6 feet across. The last few years I had it, I couldn't get it in and out without a lot of effort. I ended up donating it to a plant sanctuary in Rutland, Ohio in 2019. A nice young lady came and picked it up, absolutely thrilled to get it. I still have a snake plant my Mom gave me over 50 years ago, right after I got married, and a Norfolk pine that she got in a little Christmas arrangement in 2001 and brought with her when she moved back to Oh. from Colorado. It is over 6 feet high now.
Anyway, to answer your question, I sure do remember!

[yorkster]

17. Many a porch was taken over by hanging plants

in macrame hangers. You couldn't see the houses through all the knotted greenery.

[electric_blue68]

20. Never had hanging plants, but a bunch on my bureau....

Had a big coleus for a while earlier on.

Then these: 2 "asparagus" plants, maybe a spider, or two, and a stalky, cane angel wing begonia in a big pot on a roller. It was ?2 ft high+ from the top of the soil. Maybe 2 stalks, sometimes 3 with long horizontals. Bloomed 2 to 3 times a year. White, to palish pink, to red-pink!

It lasted nearly 25 yrs! I gave a whole bunch of cuttings away. 😄 🥰

But then it kinda stopped. I happened to get to a big plant show on the summer or so. Found a booth with serious begonia fans. Seemed that around that length of time (if i remember) they told me that often happened. I had to cut it back next ?Feb to like 3" to 4" inches! 😱
But I did it. Then it started up again. 👍🩷

I have to figure what I could put on my relatively new wide windowsill. The sun varies a lot during the year. A spider plant might do for a start. 🤔

[Luciferous]

21. I'm not old enough to have been around

for that, but I do have a lot of potted plants in my house 🙂